Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he anticipated a change in the relationship as Britain gradually concentrated on its roles in Europe , for the present the two countries continued to take " a broadly similar view of the world " . |
| 2 | The earlier that people are told the full situation and the rationale for the proposals the better . |
| 3 | In Committee the alternative proposal advanced by the Hon. Member for Dumfries was for the powers the Scottish transport users consultative committee to be extended . |
| 4 | For the parson the whole point of going to university was to become a minister of God . |
| 5 | For the horologist the nominal essence of the clock is an idea of its real essence ; in this he differs from the gazing countryman , to whom the nominal essence is simply some combination of various observable features . |
| 6 | For the PROFITBOSS the profit-making process starts with recruitment . |
| 7 | A visit to India being planned for the Prince the following year seemed the perfect opportunity . |
| 8 | If the latest available RPI is for October , then we are attempting to make a forecast for the RPI the following January , in which case m = 3 . |
| 9 | For the Government the culminating crisis began on the morning of 11 August 1931 , when MacDonald arrived overnight from Lossiemouth . |
| 10 | For the candidate the same basic rules of selling yourself apply as for one-to-one interviews . |
| 11 | The runners in the group , when not occupied in pushing chairs , collected money in buckets on the way round and £330 was collected for the home the disabled athletes come from . |
| 12 | Now that Toby Balding has decided to send Morley Street to Ireland for the race the 10-1 on offer from the sponsors is a most attractive price . |
| 13 | After 10 years during which the lira had enjoyed a fluctuation band of 6 per cent against its central rate within the European monetary system ( EMS ) , the government decided on Jan. 5 , 1990 , to adopt for the lira the narrower band of 2.25 per cent which applied to all member currencies except the Spanish peseta [ see also pp. 36741 ; 37196 ] . |
| 14 | Ariel began to long for the peace the latter draughts brought to her . |
| 15 | For the queen the last few months had been perhaps harder then for the Shah himself . |
| 16 | There are sufficient inhabitants in Stockport for a good Grammar School , but without a department for the teaching the modern languages the school can be of comparatively little use in a commercial population like that of Stockport . |
| 17 | For the Falcons the main aim of this free falling detachment is to blood the 4 new jumpers on the team , basically to make them good enough for the start of the display season in the Spring and there 's no room for lack of concentration . |
| 18 | In some cases , where the parents are dead or permanently unable to care for the child the local authority assumes parental rights over the child . |
| 19 | Now they sat eagerly on the rows of brittle gilt chairs with red velvet seats , their exquisitely made-up faces carefully devoid of expression as they made brief notes on their programmes , pretending not to notice that sometimes the clicking cameras were directed not at the catwalk models , all of whom had already done a photo-call session for the photographers the previous day , but at them — the society women of America and the international circuit , the bored charity conscious wives of big businessmen , the famed actresses of stage and screen , even the occasional European princess . |
| 20 | For the UK the highest estimate of this social cost is 7 per cent of company output , but most economists think the cost is much lower . |
| 21 | For the families the dead have left behind though , that 's little consolation . |
| 22 | Can I just say sir , we are , er , the manager is preparing a report , tonight plans a report for the February the twenty-second meeting of policy resources committee , on the first , well it 's not the first year , first tranche of the F M contract , and dealing with these points of the |
| 23 | Equality before the law , for the reformers the principal condition of the effective exercise of royal power , contained the pattern of a social revolution which must destroy the privileged groups of traditional society . |
| 24 | As this was my first experience of squadron life , I quickly fell into its easy way , I was rather surprised to find I was already selected to play rugger for the squadron the following Sunday , and also went straight into the squadron tennis team . |
| 25 | For the Turks the rediscovered hinterland is the Muslim ex-Soviet republics of central Asia . |
| 26 | When Edouard left for the airport the next morning , Isobel was with him . |
| 27 | She is simply an older version of the woman you have just been talking to , and so the farce goes into Round Two with defeat for the customer the only possible outcome . |
| 28 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a bind ; a poor return for the hours the average county cricketer puts in . ’ |
| 30 | The significance of this for the way the daring and needing are put into relation with the infinitive 's event should be obvious . |